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Before becoming the Red Hood and later an antihero, this second Robin was killed by the Joker in A Death in the Family.
Who is Jason Todd?
Japan's Tokugawa-era policy restricting most foreign contact is conventionally known by this term meaning “closed country.”
What is sakoku?
These extremely long, pointed shoes became fashionable among European elites during the later Middle Ages.
What are poulaines?
This French marque gave its name to an early automotive layout placing the engine in front with rear-wheel drive, copied by much of the industry.
What is Panhard?
Unlike vipers, cobras possess this fang arrangement: relatively fixed venom-delivering fangs at the front of the upper jaw.
What is proteroglyphous?
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen was originally conceived using characters acquired by DC from this defunct publisher.
What is Charlton Comics?
For much of the Edo period, Dutch traders were confined to this artificial island in Nagasaki harbor.
What is Dejima?
This voluminous late-medieval outer garment was famous for its enormous sleeves and could be richly lined with fur.
What is a houppelande?
Introduced in 1934, this Czechoslovakian rear-engined V8 was among the earliest production automobiles designed extensively around aerodynamics.
What is the Tatra 77?
Vipers possess this fang arrangement, allowing their exceptionally long hollow fangs to fold against the roof of the mouth.
What is solenoglyphous?
In Marvel's Earth X, this seemingly ordinary substance is revealed as the mechanism Celestials used to alter humanity and create superpowered beings.
What is the Terrigen Mist?
This 1600 battle saw Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the Western Army and paved the way for establishment of his shogunate.
What is the Battle of Sekigahara?
This fitted medieval garment was typically thigh-length on men, full-length on women, and often closed with buttons or lacing.
What is a cotehardie?
This 1921 German automobile designed by Edmund Rumpler looked sufficiently like a falling drop of water to earn the name Tropfenwagen.
What is the Rumpler Tropfenwagen?
The king cobra isn't a true cobra of genus Naja; it is the sole species traditionally placed in this genus.
What is Ophiophagus?
Before Superman transformed the genre, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created this supernatural detective, who debuted in New Fun Comics in 1935.
Who is Doctor Occult?
Emperor Go-Daigo's short-lived attempt to restore direct imperial government in the 14th century is known by this name.
What is the Kenmu Restoration?
A medieval hood could have this extraordinarily long trailing point or tube, which eventually became decorative enough to be wrapped around the head.
What is a liripipe?
The revolutionary Lancia Lambda, introduced in the 1920s, pioneered this construction technique in which the body itself carries structural loads rather than sitting on a separate chassis.
What is unitary construction, or a unibody?
This enormous African snake of genus Bitis possesses the longest fangs of any venomous snake, reaching roughly two inches.
What is the Gaboon viper?
Carl Barks never gave this fabulously wealthy Disney character his full family history, but Don Rosa later established that his father was Fergus and his mother was Downy O'Drake.
Who is Scrooge McDuck?
This powerful 7th-century clan was destroyed in the Isshi Incident of 645, helping initiate the Taika Reforms.
What is the Soga clan?
Surviving examples associated with Charles de Blois helped historians understand this heavily tailored, quilted 14th-century garment characterized by its distinctive grande assiette sleeves.
What is a pourpoint?
Engineer Gabriel Voisin's extraordinary 1930s C25 Aerodyne used this unusual mechanical system to operate its sliding roof without a conventional electric motor.
What is a vacuum-operated system?
Meaning “rear-grooved,” this traditional dental classification describes snakes whose specialized grooved venom-delivering teeth lie toward the rear of the maxilla.
What is opisthoglyphous?